Zager and Evans - In the Year 2525 [Lyrics] HD

“In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)“ is a hit song from 1969 by the American pop-rock duo of Dennis Zager and Richard Evans. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks commencing July 12, 1969. The song was written and composed by Rick Evans in 1964 and originally released on a small regional record label (Truth Records) in 1968. A year later, an Odessa, Texas, radio station popularized the disc, which RCA Records quickly picked up for nationwide distribution. “In the Year 2525“ hit six weeks number one spot on the Hot 100 in 1969. Zager & Evans was a Lincoln, Nebraska, rock-pop duo of the late 1960s and early 1970s named after its two members, Denny Zager and Rick Evans. Zager and Evans met at Nebraska Wesleyan University, and they were joined by drummer Danny Schindler (later of the Benders) in the seminal Nebraska band the Eccentrics, until Schindler’s tour of Vietnam in 1965. As Zager and Evans, the duo were backed by Mark Dalton, also a Nebraska nati